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Djinovic, Vladana; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2022

In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...

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On immigration and native entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

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Job status, international migration and educational choice

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...

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Coronavirus pandemic, remote learning and education inequalities

Murat, Marina; Bonacini, Luca - 2020

School closures during the 2020 pandemic forced countries to rapidly adopt distance learning, with uncertain effects on education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students unable to learn remotely, because of a lack of ICT...

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Shacklean uncertainty and cultural embeddedness as innovation constraints in the UK

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter; Santarelli, Enrico - 2017

We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur's innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …

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Verwaltungsqualität entscheidet mehr als Regulierungsdichte über Wachstumspotenziale von Unternehmen

Kritikos, Alexander; Amoroso, Sara; Herrmann, Benedikt - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 90 (2023) 42, pp. 585-592

Schnell wachsende Unternehmen schaffen in großem Umfang neue Arbeitsplätze und sind ein wichtiger regionaler Treiber von Wirtschafts- und Produktivitätswachstum. Dieser Bericht untersucht erstmalig, wie die Regulierungsdichte eines Landes und die Qualität der regionalen Verwaltungen, die...

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Matching worker skills to job tasks in the Netherlands : sorting into cities for better careers

Kok, Suzanne - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 2, pp. 1-36

Matches between workers and jobs are better in thick labour markets than in thin ones. This paper measures match quality by the gap between worker skills and their job tasks in the Netherlands. The smaller the gap, the better the match between skills and tasks. The measured gaps are 14 percent...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the transformation of health policy : a syndemic perspective

Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. Three key properties escalate the COVID-19 pandemic into a syndemic. To address this triple crisis, we discuss the importance of integrating early, targeted and coordinated public...

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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people to be unhappy? : evidence from a six-country survey

Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021

Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people unhappy? In this study, we use a recent survey from China, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore this question. We find a relatively large effect: a one per-mille point increase in the incidence of the COVID-19...

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Does the rise of robotic technology make people healthier?

Gunadi, Christian; Ryu, Hanbyul - 2020

Technological advancements bring changes to our life, altering our behaviors as well as our role in the economy. In this paper, we examine the potential effect of the rise of robotic technology on health. The results of the analysis suggest that higher penetration of industrial robots in the...

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